Czechoslovak factor in anti-Bolshevik forces military formations political practice during the civil war in the Russian east

In modern political practice, the factor of foreign political interference in the internal life of states is being actualized. On the agenda today there are illegal actions of foreign states, information clashes, polarization of positions, the presence of sharp contradictions in the assessment of current political events, accusations of attempts to exert military pressure on neighboring states. Historical analysis of the past allows us to say that the identified problems had their basis in the centuries-old history of Russia. This blatant foreign intervention in the internal life of the country took on the character of a military intervention to support one of the parties to the Civil War that flared up in Russia in the second decade of the 20th century. The actions of the Czechoslovak Corps, which became an important part of the military-political camp of the opponents of Bolshevism in Russia, became a definite catalyst for this foreign intervention. In March 1918, an agreement was signed between representatives of the Soviet government, the Czechoslovak National Council and the Czechoslovak Corps, according to which the Czechoslovak units formed in Russia during the First World War were sent to the east (to Vladivostok) with the aim of their subsequent shipment by sea to Europe. Guided by the foreign and domestic political situation, the Soviet leadership, in violation of the existing agreements, demanded the disarmament of the Czechoslovak formations and their subsequent disbandment. The Corps command refused to obey the demands of the Soviet government, which led to military clashes between the Corps and the Red Guards and the overthrow, with the support of the anti-Bolshevik underground, Soviet power in Siberia and the Far East. Along with military actions, the Czechoslovakians also implemented a certain political practice, declaring their political preferences of the opponents of the Bolsheviks, which indicated their desire to influence the internal political processes taking place in our country.